The Red Arrows have appointed two new pilots. The aerobatic specialists have been beset by tragedy during the last two years with a pilot crashing to his death and another dying after being ejected from his grounded plane.

The Duchess of York’s visit to Stowe School with her daughter Eugenie for a concert by Roger Hodgson of Supertramp in May has yielded unexpected results. While she was there she met Najib Afghan, 18, the school’s best marathon runner, who was rescued four years ago by The Times’s correspondent Jerome Starkey who recommended him for a scholarship at his old school.

A woman whose daughter died in a car crash months after her soldier son was killed in Afghanistan has said she is living in a "bad, bad dream" after finding out that another of her children is to be prosecuted over the fatal collision.